Archive for August, 2008

PHP Savant Has A New Home

August 20th, 2008

As Paul already announced on his blog, I am taking over the Savant project for him, and I will act as the steward for the project into the future.

Savant 3 logo

I’m very familiar with Savant, and use it in all my projects – so when Paul asked if anyone was interested, I volunteered for two reasons – firstly, I’m familiar with the project and knew I wanted to take part, and secondly, many of my projects are dependent on Savant and I would be in for a world of hurt if it went away!

So Paul and I have had quite a few email exchanges over the past couple of weeks, through DNS transfers, file exchanges, database dumps etc. And as of now I’m hosting the PHPSavant.com site, and hopefully will continue the project’s important position and beacon as ‘The Simple, Elegant Template System for PHP.’

Many thanks to Paul for his help over the past few weeks – and to those interested in helping out, feel free to get in contact with me. I’d be happy to let others participate in the project.

Oh, and I hope you like the new design for the homepage. I’ll be working on the site over the next few weeks, so things may be out of place at times, but I’ll do my best to make it easy to find the information developers need.

http://phpsavant.com/

Here’s to Savant!

Lost Stickley Side Table

August 10th, 2008

The rumor is that this was a prototype Stickley table, never put in to production. It has 14 mortise & tenon joints, and the legs angle slightly outward – which makes it a more complex project to build. This was also the first project in which I used hand-cut dovetails. After some reflection, I think this project required every tool in my little workshop to build. From mortising & tenoning jigs, hand saw & chisel for the dovetails, table saw & dado blades, jig saw for rough-cuts, band saw for the smooth curves, thickness planer, biscuit joiner, sanders, drills and screwdrivers – just about everything was used to some degree.

It has taken me quite a few weekends to build, but now that it’s complete I think it will make a nice piece of furniture for our house.
Done finishing!
Lost Stickley Side Table
half blind dovetails on the drawer front

The only question is – what do I build next?